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Created: 12 July 2002
Latest revision or update: 23 December 2011
Congregation Data
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Official Name: |
Blackpool United Hebrew Congregation |
| Address: |
Leamington Road, Blackpool
(consecrated 1916),
previously at Metropole Arcade Building, Springfield Road, North Shore,
Blackpool |
| Formation: |
Formed in about 1907 by the merger of the following
congregations: |
Blackpool Hebrew Congregation
which had held services at the synagogue at Springfield Road, North
Shore, since 1900, and previously in private houses.
(Congregation formed in 1898.) |
Blackpool New Orthodox Hebrew Congregation
(Congregation formed in 1905, as a rival congregation.) |
| Current Status: |
Active |
| Ritual: |
Ashkenazi Orthodox |
| Affiliation: |
A provincial synagogue under the aegis of the Chief Rabbi. |
| Marriage Certification: |
Group for Certification: Board of Deputies
Appears in 1998 General Registrar Official List
Worship Number: 47183
Registration District: Blackpool & Fylde |
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Congregation Numbers: |
1900 - 14 members (Jewish
Chronical, 18 May 1900)
1939 - 104 seatholders (Jewish Year Book 1940) |
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Blackpool Community
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